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Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin's Misao Photographed on Set
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A photograph of Nobuhiro Watsuki's original historical action manga in her first full-fledged action role.
Tsuchiya made her acting debut in the the 2008 film Tokyo Sonata. She said that she adored the works of Donnie Yen since she was a young spirited child, and she enjoyed Japanese dance and classical ballet since she was young. She was so ovewhelmed by the first live-action Rurouni Kenshin film last year that she would not get out of her theater seat, so she then decided to audition for the sequel films.
The include:
- Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura
- Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya
- Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara
- Yū Aoi as Megumi Takani
- Yōsuke Eguchi as Hajime Saitō
- Shishio
Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Sōjirō Seta
Yūsuke Iseya as Aoshi Shinomori
68-year-old Tekkonkinkreet, The Twilight Samurai, 47 Ronin remake) as Nenji Kashiwazaki/Okina
47-year-old Kazufumi Miyazawa (The Boom music band) as Toshimichi Ōkubo
39-year-old Yukiyoshi Ozawa (Umi no Hotaru) as Hirobumi Itō
12-year-old Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible) as Yahiko Myōjin
25-year-old model Maryjun Takahashi as Yumi Komagata
26-year-old Kamen Rider OOO) as Chō Sawagejō
film.
The two new films, which will cover the Kyoto arc from Nobuhiro Watsuki's original historical action manga, will be titled Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The End of a Legend). The films are slated to open next summer.
The first live-action Rurouni Kenshin played in San Francisco on August 1.
Watsuki's manga ran from 1994 to 1999 in year.
An anime series aired in Japan from 1996 to 1998 and spawned several anime film and video projects. released the two more recent video anime series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, which also covered the Kyoto arc.
Source: Comic Natalie
